This "Three-year-old dies from obesity" story has got a lot of coverage. It's making me quite cross. There are some very rare genetic disorders that can make people constantly hungry, eating till they kill themselves. They are discussed in "Fat Wars", I don't have my copy to hand so can't give the medical names for the conditions. I'm wondering if the 3 year old girl who died had one of these conditions.

I'm not saying most children/people who are overweight/obese have a medical condition - I know we are how we are cos we eat too much and don't exercise enough. But in this extreme case, I do wonder if the poor little girl did have some such illness. I object to her death being wheeled out as a freak show.